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Would the REAL Fastnet Race Course Records Please Stand Up & Salute Like Everyone Else…… 7th April 2021 Record-holder: the 1926-vintage 70ft Fife cutter Hallowe en, syndicate-owned at the Royal Irish YC, set the first significant Fastnet Race record in 1926 – Hallowe en s time stood for thirteen years through ten races Credit: W M Nixon Well done to the MOD 70 PowerPlay on almost managing to make the 24 hours for a Fastnet Race course finishing at Plymouth. But we d suggest in all modesty (we re tops for it) that what they were sailing was NOT the original Fastnet Race course. Back in the 1920s when the notion of a Fastnet race was first mooted, the conservative Cowes establishment would have nothing to do with such a crazy idea, and thus the first Fastnet Race in 1925 started eastward out of Solent from the Royal Victoria YC at Ryde, and then westward south of St Catherine s Point to sail the traditional course thereafter, finishing at Plymouth. ....